NYPD crossing guard hits two children on Bronx street, flees the scene: cops

Elisha Mayo, 29, an off-duty NYPD crossing guard hit a 2-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl with her car Thursday morning, then tried to flee the scene, police said.

An off-duty NYPD crossing guard hit a 2-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl with her car in the Bronx Thursday morning, then tried to flee the scene, police said.

Elisha Mayo, 29, was driving a white Acura at the intersection of Melrose Ave. and E. 153rd St. in Melrose just after 11:30 a.m. when the two children got away from the young boy’s mom and darted into her path, police said.

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The 11-year-old girl is the toddler’s cousin, cops said.

Mayo kept driving, and police pulled her over more than six miles away, on Edson Ave. near Boston Road in Eastchester.

Medics took both children to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition.

Mayo told police she was aware she was involved in a collision, but didn’t know anyone was hurt, cops said.

She’s charged with leaving the scene of an accident with injuries, and has been suspended from her job.